Maurice during the First World War
Opposite the royal Collège of Curepipe is visible a War memorial the set up with the memory of the soldiers Mauritians fallen during the First World War. The majority of them were Volontaire S in the British Armée, the Conscription not being in force in the colonies.
Rodriguais also engaged as recalled by the war memorial located vis-a-vis the Rade of Port-Mathurin.
Why these young men with the flower of the age did engage in this remote war? Perhaps to travel and see another thing that their country, perhaps also to escape misery.